I’ve just finished writing a product review for the April issue of Radio & Production magazine. This month I got to play with Sony’s Vegas 7 multitrack audio recorder/editor.
If you’re using an older version of Vegas, say v5 or earlier, you should check it out. If you’re using some other PC editor and you’d like your life to be simple again, then you should check it out right now. You can read about it here.
The power adapter for my MacBook Pro shorted out at the MagSafe connector yesterday. It was not a spectacular failure, but it did involve a wisp or two of smoke and a blackened hole in the insulation behind the plug. Time to get Apple to replace it, which brings us to the topic of Apple’s Genius Bar:
If you’ve never been to an Apple Store, the Genius Bar is where you take your Mac or iPod when it is misbehaving. The friendly (and uniformly young/hip/gen-Y) technicians will examine your machine, answer your questions, and run some diagnostic software to see what’s troubling it. It’s a busy place, and you have to make an appointment and get in line to see an Apple Genius. You can make an appointment via Apple’s website before you leave for the Store, or you can do it in the Store on one of the (surprise) Macs on the retail floor. Your name and place in the waiting list is then displayed prominently on one of several large plasma displays in the Genius Bar area.
This should clue you that This Is Going To Take A While.
I’ve been experimenting with this blog and blogging software for a few months now, and it has some significant advantages over using html, Dreamweaver, and that lot. The main advantage is ease of maintenance, and how quick it is to update the content.
The more I have experimented with WordPress software and the page structure, the more I see how the old code-it-directly-in-html or fire-up-the-huge-Dreamweaver-program model may have become unnecessary. This new blogging software is faster, easier, and seems to let me create the same stuff I used to have in straight html.
So with that, I can tell you that it’s now official and permanent… acmevoiceworx-dot-com is now powered by WordPress and is now Web 2.0-compliant, whatever that means. I’ll have more to say about this experience a bit later, promise.
Hope you like the new look and organization. It’s far more organized than anything else in my life.
I’m done editing and mastering the audio record for the 2007 edition of Dan O’Day’s PD Grad School. It contains just over 11 hours of radio programming techinques, theory, advice and practice on ten CDs, featuring Larry Rosin, David Lawrence, Dave Foxx, and several others. Didn’t get to attend? Get the CD package here.
